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Marse Henry
Complete

CHAPTER the Eighteenth
12/17

Never again for me.

I have put up my last dollar south of the Potomac." Then I went to the King of the transcontinental railways.

"Mr.Huntington," I said, "you own a road extending from St.Louis to Newport News, having a terminal in a cornfield just out of Hampton Roads.

Here is a franchise which gives you a magnificent site at Hampton Roads itself.

Why not ?" He gazed upon me with a blank stare--such I fancy as he usually turned upon his suppliants--and slowly replied: "I would not spend another dollar in Virginia if the Lord commanded me.


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